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Table 1 List of activities included in interventions/studies

From: Effectiveness of primary school-based interventions in improving oral health of children in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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List of activities included in interventions/studies

01

Oral health education sessions for children [8, 28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49]

02

Oral health education sessions for parents [27, 28, 30, 32, 33]

03

Integration of activities into the school curriculum [8, 28, 31, 33, 34, 50, 36]

04

Training for those delivering the program [8, 27, 28, 31,32,33, 50, 51, 45,46,47, 50,51,52] and follow up training for reinforcement [8, 27]

05

Provision and use of educational materials to children such as charts, posters, pictures, games, models and audio-visual aids [8, 9, 27, 29, 30, 32,33,34, 51, 40,41,42,43,44,45, 44, 45]

06

Demonstration of oral health self-care [27, 31, 34, 38, 40, 44,45,46]

07

Provision and use of instruction manuals [8, 31, 33, 46,47,48, 48]

08

Oral examination, informing parents [9, 25, 32, 34, 37, 43] and offer of free treatment [37]

09

Provision of fluoride toothpaste [9, 33, 34, 52] and tooth brush [28, 34]

10

Provision of fluoride mouth rinse [38, 45] and fluoride gel [38]

11

Regular visits to motivate teachers [27, 34]

12

Supervised tooth brushing [23, 24, 27, 31, 50, 52, 38, 39] and flossing [39], and brush with disclosed plaque visualization [22]

13

Tour of dental hospital/health clinic [9, 36]

14

Peer health education, supervision of toothbrushing and training of children [36]

15

Provision of sugar free chewing gum [27]

16

Knowledge contests on oral health knowledge, painting oral health situations, brushing teeth, and public speaking [9, 29, 30, 36]

17

Provision of preventive and curative care including sealing pits and fissures, removal of calculus, restoring cavities, emergency care, treating pulpally involved teeth, and zinc supplementation [9, 25, 26, 50, 52]

18

Provision of take-home materials such as brush charts, parent educational flyers and calendars [30, 33, 43, 53, 48]

19

Use of mass media to provide information about the project activities [31, 50, 52]

20

Attending annual conferences [39] and national convention and exhibition [36]

21

Action planning exercises, rate how confident they were and identify barriers to dental flossing [35]

22

Children conduct health activities at school [36, 42, 47]

23

Children formulate a proposition of, ways to overcome obstacles and formulate goals to brush three times a day [44]

24

Demonstration and practice on how to make a chew stick [46]